Lodge

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
3. A place in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
4. An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
   countable, uncountable
5. Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
   countable, uncountable
7. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
8. A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
   countable, uncountable
9. A local chapter of a trade union.
   US
10. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
11. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
12. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
13. A den or cave.
14. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
15. The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
16. A collection of objects lodged together.
17. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
18. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.”

“the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands”

“The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.”

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